May The 4th Be With You: Stars & Fans Celebrate Star Wars Day

‘Star Wars’ fans all across the country found very creative ways to celebrated the unofficial holiday, on May 4, dedicated to anything, and everything about the class sci-fi movie.

On May 4, everyone across the country and probably around the world was saying “May the 4th be with you” in honor of the unofficial holiday dedicated to everything Star Wars. Many movie enthusiast found strange, inventive, and comical ways to ring in the holiday.

May The 4th Be With You: Fans Create Ways To Celebrate Star Wars Holiday

A minor league baseball team in Durham, North Carolina, (one featured in another brilliant film, “Bull Durham”) wore “droid” inspired uniforms. The team shirts sported a creative R2-D2 design. We guess C-3PO doesn’t get as much love as his smaller counterpart.

The popular spoof website, Collegehumor.com made a hilarious video of various musician auditioning for the “cantina” band. Weird Al Yankovic and Liz Phair really show up for the audition in the video and it’s fantastic!

The “cantina” is actually a classic scene from the first Star Wars Film where Luck Skywalker meets Han Solo. The band playing in the background of that scene is what Collegehumor.com is holding fake auditions for.

Politicians were even getting in on the holiday and sending out tweets to show their love of Star Wars. Justin Trudeau, an MP in Canada’s parliament tweeted this:

May The 4th Be With You: Fans Create Ways To Celebrate Star Wars Holiday

Justin’s tweet references a classic line said by Luck in the first Star Wars film.

Other fans chose to simply dress up as their favorite Star Wars characters. “Stormtroopers” were spotted invading the Denver International Airport and there was no end to the countless light-saber battles that erupted across the country.

New York-based Star Wars fan group, New York Jedi, put on a special light-saber battle demonstration for fans during the holiday!